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Ennio Morricone

1928 - 2020

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Ennio Morricone ( EN-yoh MORR-ih-KOH-nee, -⁠nay, Italian: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne]; 10 November 1928 – 6 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classical works, Morricone is widely considered one of the most prolific and greatest film composers of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ennio Morricone is the 31st most popular composer (down from 23rd in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 79th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Composer.

Ennio Morricone is most famous for his work as a composer for film scores. He has composed music for more than 500 films, including Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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Among composers, Ennio Morricone ranks 31 out of 1,451. Before him are Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, Bedřich Smetana, Jacques Offenbach, and Dmitri Shostakovich. After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, and Christoph Willibald Gluck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ennio Morricone ranks 6. Before him are Che Guevara, John Forbes Nash Jr., James Watson, Andy Warhol, and Hosni Mubarak. After him are Stanley Kubrick, Ariel Sharon, Noam Chomsky, Eduard Shevardnadze, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and Chinghiz Aitmatov. Among people deceased in 2020, Ennio Morricone ranks 3. Before him are Diego Maradona, and Hosni Mubarak. After him are Sean Connery, Philip Warren Anderson, Kirk Douglas, Betty Williams, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Pierre Cardin, and Max von Sydow.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ennio Morricone ranks 142 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Gregory VII (1020), Pope Alexander VII (1599), Pope Marcellus II (1501), Pope Formosus (816), Pope Paul IV (1476), and Lucius Verus (130). After him are Amedeo Avogadro (1776), Zeno of Elea (-490), Pope Gregory XIV (1535), Antoninus Pius (86), Pope Nicholas V (1397), and Paolo Veronese (1528).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Ennio Morricone ranks 6. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), and Claudio Monteverdi (1567). After him are Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Antonio Salieri (1750), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), and Guido of Arezzo (991).

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